Fifteen years at the apex of residence & citizenship.
8T20 Capital is a discreet private-client advisory. Our leadership has worked at the centre of government-facing residence and citizenship programmes since 2010 — serving private clients from more than thirty countries, and the sovereign programmes of the Caribbean, Cyprus and Malta. We bring that institutional depth to a single, personal relationship.
The people behind your strategy.
A senior bench across private clients, law and compliance, real estate, and tax — with admitted local counsel coordinated in every jurisdiction we open.
Andrew Taylor
Managing Partner
Andrew founded 8T20 Capital and leads its private-client residence and property practice. Over more than twenty years he has built and scaled cross-border advisory businesses across technology, investment and real estate — and has worked at the centre of government-facing residence- and citizenship-by-investment programmes since 2010, connected to Caribbean, Cypriot and Maltese authorities, where sovereign trust, due diligence and discretion decide everything. At board level he led strategy, technology, real estate and international expansion for a global cross-border advisory practice. A Canadian-born dual Canadian–British national resident in South Africa, he has advised private clients from more than thirty countries.
Sofia Castellanos
Director · Head of Private Clients
Sofia is the single point of trust for every private client — from the first confidential conversation to the residence card in hand. With a background in private banking and family-office advisory across Europe and the Gulf, she coordinates the qualifying investment, the licensed professionals and the immigration steps so a family experiences one relationship, not five.
Markos Ioannou
Director · Compliance & Due Diligence
Markos leads due diligence, source-of-funds review and the firm’s coordination with the admitted local counsel who carry out the regulated legal work in each jurisdiction. With two decades in cross-border compliance and residence-programme casework, he builds every file to the standard a government, not a salesperson, expects. 8T20 is not a law firm — the legal filings are made by licensed counsel he instructs and tracks.
Élise Laurent
Director · Qualifying Investments
Élise sources and vets the qualifying property behind every residence — title, planning, developer standing and exit. With fifteen years in prime international real estate across the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, she helps clients see how each qualifying investment performs and holds its value.
Reuben Naicker
Director · Technology & Systems
Reuben builds the technology behind the white-glove. The 8T20 platform lets a family share its details once, pre-populates the government forms, and runs a date engine that watches every expiry — so the paperwork lightens, errors fall away, and each file reaches filing faster. The systems carry the load; the people keep the judgement.
8T20 Capital coordinates the engagement and facilitates applications through admitted local legal, tax and immigration counsel in each jurisdiction. It is an advisory firm, not a law firm, and does not itself provide regulated legal services.
A trusted voice on global mobility.
Our leadership’s perspective on residence, citizenship and cross-border property has been sought by the international press.
Institutional rigour, personally delivered.
The depth of a global group, the discretion of a family office. Every recommendation is traceable to the governing law and the administering authority.
Each route traced to its statute, regulation or decree.
Sourced from the administering authorities directly.
Verified against primary legislation, June 2026.
References, sources and real figures at every step.
A government-grade standard
A decade inside Caribbean, Cypriot and Maltese programmes taught us that sovereign trust is earned through due diligence and discretion — the same standard we hold to every private file.
Independent and conflict-free
We are not tied to a single developer or jurisdiction. We identify the right strategy first, then source the asset and coordinate counsel around it.
One relationship, worldwide
A coordinated network of admitted local counsel, licensed agents and developers across our priority jurisdictions — managed for you as a single engagement.
Work with the apex of the industry.
A short, confidential assessment identifies the right residence and property strategy for your family — then a senior advisor takes it from there.